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The Breathing Architecture

The Breathing Architecture, 2010Acrylic on WoodPart of “VERTIGO” Collection

Alex Pardee says: "This is my favorite of my
recent 'Vertigo' series, a group of work focused on the physical representations of
nightmares. For years,
my technique would go like this: I would get a loose idea, if any idea at all, and scribble until it morphed
into something completely different.

"The 'VERTIGO' paintings
were a completely different challenge because I did everything with the exactly
opposite approach. I treated each painting like an art-directed commercial job
that I gave myself because I wanted all of the paintings to be something new. I wrote descriptions of what I wanted to paint
and forced myself that even if I got stuck on the concept,
I would still just FIGURE out how to make it work. I think that discipline
helped me learn quite a bit with this new collection. The discipline and satisfaction that I had learned from doing work for
Sucker Punch & Inglourious Basterds inspired me to apply that discipline to
my own personal art and the final result was fulfilling."